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- Philip Sledge
- Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) It is hard to imagine a world in which anyone but John Williams composed the Star Wars score, and luckily, we don’t have to experience that dark reality.
- Jaws (1975) Steven Spielberg’s Jaws is still considered one of the best movies of all time nearly 50 years after its release, and the legendary blockbuster is made even better thanks to John Williams’ score, which earned the composer an Oscar.
- Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) In addition to kicking off the Indiana Jones franchise, Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark also features one of John Williams’ most well-known tracks: the “Raiders March.”
- Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (2001) Though composers like Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper, and Alexandre Desplat would go on to provide the music for later films in the franchise, John Williams kicked things off with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
- The Graduate (1967) Mike Nichols’ indelible comedy of alienation is that rare thing, a movie that really does define a generation. That’s because there has never been another movie like it (and no, “Rushmore” doesn’t count).
- 12 Angry Men (1957) How elemental — and riveting — is this: an entire courtroom drama set inside the jury room, where Henry Fonda, as the only member of the jury who suspects that a teenage defendant might not be guilty of murder, questions, cajoles and gradually convinces his fellow jurors to look more closely at the evidence.
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) You never forget your first. That may be how many American art-house habituésthink of Pedro Almodóvar’s riotous comedy.
- Alien (1979) A smothering tentacled thingy attaches itself to an astronaut’s face. Several scenes later, an alien fetus erupts right out of his belly, and the cinema would never be the same.
2 days ago · Welcome to the 300 highest-rated best movies of all time, as reviewed and selected by Tomatometer-approved critics and Rotten Tomatoes users. 1. 99% L.A. Confidential (1997) 2. 97% The Godfather (1972) 3. 99% Casablanca (1942) 4. 100% Seven Samurai (1954)
- 50 All That Jazz
- 49 Lost in Translation
- 48 The Thing
- 47 His Girl Friday
- 46 The Silence of The Lambs
- 45 Cléo from 5 to 7
- 44 Hard Boiled
While the 1950s was likely the greatest decade for the movie musical (and several of them, such as The Band Wagon, Singin' in the Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Bothers, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, could easily be included here or in a top 100), it was Bob Fosse's pair of 1970s musicals, Cabaret andAll That Jazz, which are arguably the two greatest...
In Lost in Translation, Bill Murray gives one of his best performances(and certainly one that would define each subsequent performance of his) as an aging star who gets a sweet deal to do a whiskey ad in Tokyo. Meanwhile, Scarlett Johansson plays the new wife of a hotshot photographer who is stuck traipsing about the swanky hotel with nothing to do...
While most people may consider Halloween (or even the brilliant They Live) to be John Carpenter's best film, there is something unforgettably unsettling and boundary-pushing about The Thing which keeps us coming back to it. Maybe it's the astoundingly imaginative practical effects that follow a shape-shifting alien entityas it transforms from perso...
His Girl Friday is the story of a divorced couple working at the same newspaper, with the ex-husband scheming to get back with his ex-wife, is a delightful, relentless, and timeless riot, and remains one of the first truly modern comedies. Howard Hawks was one of the best directors to capture sparkling dialogue, whether in comedies or great film no...
The Silence of the Lambs is incredibly frightening if only for its realism. Nothing in the film (or the novel that inspired it) is too far-fetched compared to what happens in reality, which makes it scarier than most supernatural films. Jonathan Demme's direction is suffocatingly tight, and the tense script has every perfect line of dialogue brough...
The endlessly endearing and inventive French filmmaker Agnès Varda had one of the greatest careers in film history (gorgeously packaged in a recent Criterion Collection box set), but it's probably her second feature film, Cléo from 5 to 7, that's her best. Granted, she spent six decades making incredible films, from masterpieces like Le Bonheur and...
The action genre isn't often celebrated in lists of the absolute greatest films ever made, but some of them deserve to be, certainly if John Woo's name is attached. If anyone has brought pure balletic grace and visual poetry to action cinema, it's Woo. While some may say the apotheosis of his style is on full display in The Killer (or even the ecce...
- Benjamin Hathaway
- The Night of the Hunter" (1955) That one at least has taken on a canonical aspect. The list evolves slowly. Keaton rises, Chaplin falls. It is eventually decided that "Vertigo" is Hitchcock's finest film.
- Apocalypse Now" (1979) To be useful to me, a list should contain titles I'm not familiar with, suggest directors I should be looking at, and inspire me to give some films another look.
- Sunrise" (1927) Their selection passes my most important test: It is interesting. It contains ten titles that aren't included in my ever-growing Great Movies Collection, and I am now inspired to consider them.
- "Black Narcissus" (1947) Advertisement. That said, "The Night of the Hunter" is not an absurd title for the top of the list, with the caveat that all lists are meaningless.
Film writer and editor. 58. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Film. Action and adventure. Both a sequel and a reboot, the fourth entry in director George Miller’s series of post-apocalyptic gearhead ...
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Rocky (1976) topped British website Digital Spy's "greatest ever sports movie" online poll in 2012, with 18.7% of the votes. Voters chose from a list of 25 films. [85] It was also voted the best sports movie of all time in a 2020 poll organized by The Athletic. They asked 120 panelists to nominate their favorite sports movies, and then to rate ...
